What is blackbody radiation?

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What is blackbody radiation?

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Blackbody:

A body which absorbs the radiations of all the wavelengths incident on it. It is called perfect black body.

For a blackbody emissivity is equal to 1.

The thermal electromagnetic radiation within or surrounding a body emitted by the blackbody is known as blackbody radiation.

The blackbody radiation is a specific spectrum of wavelengths.

Which depends inversely to the intensity

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The blackbody radiation has a continuous frequency spectrum , which only depends on the temperature of the surface.

 Planck law :

According to it, at thermal equilibrium the  electromagnetic radiation  at temperature T,

The specific radiance of the body B is given as,

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Here B is spectral emissive power per unit area at particular frequency or wavelengths.

The unit of B in terms of  frequency is W.Sr-1m-2.Hz-1 and the unit of B in terms of wavelength is W.Sr-1m-3.

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